Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
like rams together with male goats.
New American Standard Bible
Like rams together with male goats.
King James Version
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
International Standard Version
"I'll bring them down like lambs for the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
A Conservative Version
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
American Standard Version
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
Amplified
“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
Like rams together with male goats.
Bible in Basic English
I will make them go down to death like lambs, like he-goats together.
Darby Translation
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
Julia Smith Translation
I will bring them down as lambs for the slaughter, as rams with he goats.
King James 2000
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"I will bring them down like young rams to slaughter, like rams and goats.
Modern King James verseion
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I shall carry them down to be slain like sheep, like whethers and goats.
NET Bible
"I will lead them off to be slaughtered like lambs, rams, and male goats."
New Heart English Bible
"I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
The Emphasized Bible
I will bring them down As fat lambs to slaughter, - As rams with he-goats.
Webster
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
World English Bible
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
Youngs Literal Translation
I cause them to go down as lambs to slaughter, As rams with he-goats.
Themes
Lambs » Illustrative » (brought to slaughter,) of the wicked under judgments
Interlinear
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 51:40
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Message Concerning Babylon
39
and I will make them drunk so that they revel.
Then they will fall asleep forever
and never wake up.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
like rams together with male goats.
the praise
What a horror Babylon has become
among the nations!
Cross References
Jeremiah 50:27
let them go down to the slaughter.
Woe to them, because their day has come,
the time of their punishment.
Psalm 37:20
the Lord’s enemies, like the glory of the pastures,
will fade away—
they will fade away like smoke.
Psalm 44:22
we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.
Isaiah 34:6
It drips with fat,
with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat of the kidneys of rams.
For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
Ezekiel 39:18
You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the earth’s princes: rams, lambs, male goats, and all the fattened bulls of Bashan.